Lost Classic: Prince of Darkness (John Carpenter, 1987)
In his best films, John Carpenter straddles the fuzzy line between auteur and genre craftsman. This tendency is on full…
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Lost Classic: The Way, Way Back (Nat Faxon & Jim Rash, 2013)
Nat Faxon and Jim Rash’s The Way, Way Back is a typical teen movie in so many ways. It captures…
Lost Classic: Three Wishes for Cinderella (Václav Vorlíček, 1973)
The story of Cinderella has been adapted countless times, from the iconic Disney animation to Kenneth Branagh’s recent live action…
Lost Classic: Valhalla Rising (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2009)
If “art is an act of violence” as the uncompromising Nicolas Winding Refn has attested, then his vicious Viking abstraction…
Lost Classic: You Said A Mouthful (Lloyd Bacon, 1932)
“I really couldn’t respect a man unless he were a great swimmer,” says Alice Brandon (Ginger Rogers) to Joe Holt…
Lost Classic: Sweet and Lowdown (Woody Allen, 1999)
He’s the greatest jazz guitarist in the world except for a “gypsy in France”, declares Emmet Ray (Sean Penn), the…
Lost Classic: Black Orpheus (Marcel Camus, 1959)
The moment the title card is smashed to pieces and the famous samba and bossa nova sounds burst through, ushering in a…
Lost Classic: Ulysses’ Gaze (Theo Angelopoulos, 1995)
As with the main character in Homer’s Odyssey, from whom Ulysses’ Gaze (1997) gets its name, Theo Angelopoulos’ sadly forgotten…
Lost Classic: The Midnight Story (Joseph Pevney, 1957)
Joseph Pevney is a name you don’t hear often, although his output as a director was prolific. He made eighty…
